Most likely with many of their cool ideas that suffer such continuous reschedules, it is dead now and teams are already doing something else assuming they are still at Microsoft.
Pity, it was supposed to have a proper Win32 sandbox model.
Sounds like 10X may never see the light of day. Too bad, since the Surface Neo with 10X seemed like a great idea.
> The question becomes if there really is a future for anything other than traditional Windows 10? Microsoft said during their last earnings call that there were 1.3 billion active devices are running the OS each month and with that context in mind, does there really need to be a ‘lite’ version of the OS?
There were also more devices running OS X before iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS were created.
They were actually pretty close with Windows Phone but they bifurcated the API losing developers, did a bad job of the app store, and generally underestimated the importance of mobile. Even their Silverlight tech was very mature when they killed it rather than finding it new home(s).
This is basically MS giving up and using up their customer base of Windows Xbox until they become irrelevant.